A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!


A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!

If you counted for 24 hours a day, it would take over 31,000 years to reach one trillion.

If you pet a cat 70 million times, you will have developed enough static electricity to light a 60-watt light bulb for one minute.

If you yelled for over 8 and a half years, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

This very second, 70% of the people driving on U.S. highways, are speeding.

The average American eats at McDonalds 1,811 times in their life.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

A snail takes 115 days to travel a mile.

At 90 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, your breath will freeze in midair and fall to the ground.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

In China, the day a child is born it is considered one year old

If the population of Chine walked by you in a single file line, the line would never end because the rate of reproduction is so high.

A forfeited game in baseball is recorded as 9-0.

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there though.

A hockey puck weighs .38 lb.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A one degree rise in temperature equals a 2% increase in peak electricity consumption.

A person would die if all of the toxic ingredients of one cigarette were directly injected into the bloodstream.

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!

A soccer ball has 32 panels.

A telephone signal travels a 100,000 miles per secon



Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 5 pitches.

Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

By the age of 75, the average American has created about 110,000 pounds of garbage.

Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.

Each day, 14,000 tons of garbage are dumped into Fresh Kills, NY, the largest landfill in the world.

Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Five-Card Poker has 2,598,960 possible hands.

Golf balls can reach speeds of 170 miles an hour.

It takes 3,000 folds to wear out a dollar bill.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

Men get hiccups more often than women do.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!

More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.

More than 1,800 medals are awarded at the Olympics.

Most people take an average of seven minutes to fall asleep

Nearly all boys grow ...

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